My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
Drawing on Arundhati Roy’s encyclopedic wisdom and decades of involvement in anticolonial and antiauthoritarian struggles as an activist, thinker, cultural worker, writer, and speaker, this event will offer crucial insights into the current moment in the context of the United States.
Roy’s My Seditious Heart is an activist manifesto that weaves together interior life and outward politics to remind us that our affective states—our feelings, emotions, and even preconscious thoughts, often shaped by social, political, and cultural forces—impact the movements we build and the politics we bring. At a moment when solidarity is urgently needed, Roy offers guidance and inspiration, showing us that we need to feel our way through this.
Join author Arundhati Roy in conversation with MCF president and CEO Dr. Carmen Rojas.
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Meet the Speakers
Dr. Carmen Rojas
MCF president and CEO / Moderator, Marguerite Casey Foundation
Dr. Carmen Rojas is the president and CEO of Marguerite Casey Foundation. Under her leadership, which started in 2020, MCF has granted more than $273 million in funding to dozens of organizations doing the hard work of shifting power to those people who have long been excluded from having it, and launched the prestigious Freedom Scholar award. Prior to MCF, Dr. Rojas was the cofounder and CEO of the Workers Lab, an innovation lab that partners with workers to develop new ideas that help them succeed and flourish.
Arundhati Roy
Author, My Seditious Heart
Arundhati Roy lives in New Delhi. She is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. A collection of her essays from the past twenty years, My Seditious Heart, was published by Haymarket Books. Haymarket also recently published Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus, which was awarded the European Essay Prize. Her latest book, published by Scribner in September, is Mother Mary Comes to Me.
The MCF Book Club creates a space for authors, scholars, and organizers to examine the most pressing issues of our time and imagine how we can radically transform our world.